Beautifully peaceful.

Vanilla Persona 3, except it's actually fun to play. A very faithful, gorgeous remake of one of my favourite games of all time. Plays amazingly on Steam Deck. Loving it so far despite the atmosphere being a little worse than in the original

Also, here's a tip to fix the dorm visuals: go to the graphics settings and drop the background brightness three times. Now the game looks better

When this started with the suicide hotline number I thought, "ah, I'm no doubt in for a thoughtful and nuanced depiction of mental illness!"

At one point there's a scene where the main character freaks out about her follower count and people commenting, like, "no sexy pics no followers!!!" and i refuse to believe no one on the dev team said "hey is this stupid? is this fucking stupid you guys?"

This game has a lot of game to it. Too much sometimes, but it does make your brain go brrrt a bunch.

kind of a perfect game?

conceptually this is the most impressive puzzle game I've ever played.

a serviceable soulslike with fun, fast-paced combat, a handful of interesting ideas, and a cool aesthetic. with that said, it tries to do a bit too much, overcomplicating and padding out what could have been a short and sweet experience, and it falls short in key areas, like level design. it also has some jankiness in regards to hitboxes and the consistency of certain moves, which can make losing infuriating at times.

fun enough story, lots of cool lore, intriguing characters and a truly great combat system. with that said, the pacing of the second half drags, leading to most of its best aspects wearing a bit thin by the end. also, while I did find the story to be a fun enough time, it definitely has a lot of shortcomings in terms of character growth and motivations, which was disappointing. regardless, it is the most fun I have had with this type of rpg in a very long time.